mid sized business

Running a retail company has never been so challenging – perhaps more so for mid-sized businesses. With high customer expectations, shrinking margins, and intense competition from start-ups and global retail giants alike, it’s difficult to know which areas of your business to prioritise for improvement. In this guide, we’ll discuss some of the key challenges for growing retailers. We’ll also look at the digital tools that could help you overcome them, and keep your competitive edge.

Did you ever wonder what enterprise resource planning or ERP is and how it can help your business? Or perhaps you know a little about ERP but you’re not sure if you should opt for an on-premise or cloud solution and what to expect from your final choice.
Don’t worry.
If you’re a business owner, manager or director in a mid-sized or growing business and you’re confused about ERP, this guide will help you.

Salesfusion is transforming how mid-market businesses engage audiences and measure marketing success. Our marketing automation platform is purpose-built for mid-sized companies. It is designed to include all of the features you need in a single platform that is both broad and deep in capability. We obsessed about the platform design to ensure it is easy to use with drag and drop interfaces for email, landing page, and form builders, and Salesfusion is the only marketing automation platform to include a comprehensive Business Intelligence module.

Both business and IT leaders will learn:
. Why midmarket organizations may have some requirements for BI and analytics programs
. How to navigate the many options available, and the pros and cons of various deployment styles
. Easy methods and techniques to get started with BI at
midmarket organizations
. Practical steps and best practices for midmarket BI programs

This paper will discuss the barriers to data-driven decision making for midsized businesses, and how experts and non-experts alike can use SAS Visual Analytics to unlock the value of data – including big data – to increase revenue, cut operational costs and better manage their business.

CapSpecialty, through its subsidiaries, is a leading provider of specialty insurance for small to mid-sized businesses in the U.S., offering commercial property and casualty, professional liability, surety and fidelity products in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. By working with select partners through a limited distribution model, CapSpecialty’s creative, hardworking team provides personalized service and cultivates mutually successful partnerships to deliver positive results.

Are you about to implement change management using BMC Remedy Service Management or BMC IT Service Management for Mid-sized Businesses (a.k.a. Magic or Service Desk Express)? Have you already implemented one of these systems and want to maximize the return on your investment? Get this white paper to see how others have optimized their change management implementation approach to derive the most value from their investment by adding closed-loop control.

Payments is an increasingly strategic area of focus for enterprises, impacting market expansion, customer experience, business model evolution and, ultimately, revenue growth. As the role of payments in business strategy continues to expand, enterprises need secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure to underpin their transaction acceptance and processing capabilities.
Stripe commissioned 451 Research to understand how large enterprise-scale merchants are thinking through their online payments infrastructure requirements. 451 Research surveyed 800 merchants across 8 countries, including a mix of business decision-makers from payments to finance to IT.
KEY FINDINGS
• 87% of mid- and large-sized businesses surveyed use the cloud as their dominant payments environment.
• Nearly two-thirds of respondents using the public cloud for payments have seen improvements in security, innovation and uptime, while nearly three in five cited improved scalability.
• Respondents using public-cloud-

More successful small and mid-sized companies are beginning to tie compensation directly to employee performance to drive incredible business results.
Written with input from leading HR professionals, this guide provides valuable, real-world insight into how to build a successful pay-for-performance culture that can literally transform your business.

To survive in today's marketplace, small to mid-sized businesses are increasingly using the power of company-wide goal alignment to generate strong financial performance, increase productivity and create a more cohesive culture than their larger competitors.

Small and midsized businesses have a particularly challenging time protecting company data. They have many of the same security and backup challenges as large enterprises, but fewer
resources in terms of funding, time and specialized expertise.

This white paper reviews the challenges with endpoint security in virtualized environments - including the inherent risks of dynamic virtual machines and the resource impact of security software such as virus-scanners in multiple guest virtual machines, on a single physical host.

This white paper describes the evolution of these changes as enterprises adopt virtualization and then cloud computing. It then describes Trend Micro's vision for the evolution of security as a facilitator of mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing.

WD Music is a one-of-a-kind company, but their path to growth was blocked by a problem faced by thousands of small and
mid-sized businesses: their precious capital was tied up in a long cash-conversion cycle. WD Music had to pay suppliers in-full
for guitar parts, then wait weeks or months to recoup the cash from customer sales. This left them without the working capital
to buy more inventory, fulfill more orders and create a healthier, more profitable business. One day, Larry Davis, Vice President
of WD Music, was speaking with Greg Kleehammer, from UPS Capital®. Kleehammer asked a simple question: “What if you could
take one of your company’s biggest assets — your in-transit inventory — and turn it into working capital?” That’s how WD Music
discovered an alternative-financing solution that opened the door to more growth, more prosperity and a lot less stress.

WD Music is a one-of-a-kind company, but their path to growth was blocked by a problem faced by thousands of small and
mid-sized businesses: their precious capital was tied up in a long cash-conversion cycle. WD Music had to pay suppliers in-full
for guitar parts, then wait weeks or months to recoup the cash from customer sales. This left them without the working capital
to buy more inventory, fulfill more orders and create a healthier, more profitable business. One day, Larry Davis, Vice President
of WD Music, was speaking with Greg Kleehammer, from UPS Capital®. Kleehammer asked a simple question: “What if you could take one of your company’s biggest assets — your in-transit inventory — and turn it into working capital?” That’s how WD Music discovered an alternative-financing solution that opened the door to more growth, more prosperity and a lot less stress.